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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2015
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Nakamura, Wako, JP;
Kazuhiro Nakadai, Wako, JP;
Tetsuo Kinoshita, Sendai, JP;
Hideyuki Takahashi, Sendai, JP;
Lana Sinapayen, Tokyo, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An acoustic processing device includes: a sound pickup unit configured to record an acoustic signal; a motion detection unit configured to detect the motion of the device; a self-localization unit configured to estimate the position of the device based on the acoustic signal and the motion; and a use determination unit configured to determine whether or not to use the acoustic signal in a sound source localization unit detecting the position of a target sound source to be detected based on the intensity of a reference signal incoming from a reference sound source determined in advance.